It took me being an intern for a body image-focused platform to face the fact that I struggle with my body image. Crazy right? For a long time, I thought body image issues were something that I couldn’t possibly struggle with as someone who would be conventionally...
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Podcast: Body Image and Cancer
Today I talk to my best friend from my teen years, Rachel Czyz, about her journey through breast cancer. We visit one aspect of cancer few cover--body image. It's a strange concept right? You shouldn't be worried about how you look when you're fighting for your life....
Podcast: Body Image and Sexual Abuse, Hope and Healing with Mary DeMuth
Today I talk to my friend, Mary DeMuth – she's written dozens of books on a variety of topics – and we talk about several of them! Mary has a powerful testimony of enduring sexual abuse and shares her journey to find healing, what's helped her along the way, and...
When Your Christian Husband Looks at Other Women: Marriage, Lust, & Body Image with Guest, Rachael Gilbert
Today's episode just may change your life and your marriage. Especially if you've ever felt frustrated that your Christian husband looks at other women. If you've ever struggled with wondering if you are "good enough" for your husband, physically . . . if you've ever...
Podcast: What’s the Healthiest Way for a Christian to Lose Weight? Sara Borgstede
Today on the Compared to Who? Podcast -- Sara Borgstede from the Holy Mess and Faithful Finish Lines -- and I talk about the healthiest way for a Christian to lose weight. I'm not a fan of diet culture because popular diets don't work long term. **2022 update: My...
Podcast: Real Women, Real Hope: Kassandra Baker on Orthorexia and How Clean Eating Didn’t Fix Body Image
Kassandra Baker and I get real about the struggles of eating disorders (or ED as she calls them) and talk about her journey through Orthorexia and how God has shown her a freedom she never thought possible. If you love stories of real women who have found recovery and...
Podcast: Body Image, Comparison and Clutter at Home? An Interview with Organizer Dana White, A Slob Comes Clean
Is there a connection between comparison and clutter at home? Does keeping your house in order have anything to do with your body image? This conversation may just change your body image and your home! I talk to Dana White of a Slob Comes Clean on how to keep both...
Will We Really Have Better Bodies in Heaven?
I grew up in church. So I've heard it. I've repeated it even. "Don't worry! When we get to heaven we'll all have perfect bodies!" And it's true. We will be perfected once we get there. But over the years I've interpreted that perfection to mean that I'd be a certain...
3 Good Reasons to Stop Comparing
Need some reasons to stop comparing yourself to others? Read this. You slip into your brand new one-piece. It looked okay in the store's dressing room. I can do this. You think to yourself. But one accidental glance at the tag's picture of the gorgeous woman wearing...
Podcast: Jami Amerine on “Well, Girl” and Image
Author, speaker, blogger Jami Amerine and I talk about her journey to becoming an author and what it took to write her story in her forthcoming body image book, "Well, Girl." You'll appreciate Jami's authenticity as she talks about a struggle we all know well. Don't...